Quotes from Parker Posey

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.

They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.